• Frequent Flyer (unregistered) in reply to gremlin
    gremlin:
    Beavis:
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    You know, I'm no math wiz, but that doesn't make sense. Birthdays should be whole numbers regardless of birthdays.

    Actually, they do sometimes count years of 360 days for some calculations, so I guess after enough time they could get out of sync with reality, so to speak. But I've never seen them use a fractional age at a birthday, and it still seems like a WTF to me.

    My guess (and it's entirely a guess) is that for the purposes of calculating the life cover premium they only consider one of the applicants' birthdays as the reference point (probably the soonest of the two.) I.e. it's saying "On date X person A will be aged Y and person B will be aged Z", and it just happens date X is person A's birthday.

  • ckoppelman (unregistered)

    "Invalid Entry" must simply be a handicap-accessible bus.

  • Yazeran (unregistered) in reply to Oliver Klozoff
    Oliver Klozoff:
    These!is!a!loose!wise!os someuhiog!causiog!eycess!caqaciuaoce!oo the!D0 lioe/ Eiuhes thau, os these's!a!damagee pumldowo ciscuiu. The!resumt is; Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC seu, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC seu. Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC cmeas, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC *uociaogee*.

    This!acuuamly!makes!iu possicle!to!pastiamly!rewesse!the!egfecu (ig ouupuu cias has!LSC cmeas, you!koow!the!ciasacues begose!iu hae the!LSC cmeas)/

    (Original text:) There is a loose wire or something causing excess capacitance on the D0 line. Either that, or there's a damaged pulldown circuit. The result is: If character N has its LSB set, then character N+1 will have its LSB set. If character N has its LSB clear, then character N+1 will have its LSB unchanged.

    This actually makes it possible to partially reverse the effect (if output char has LSB clear, you know the character before it had the LSB clear).

    It somewhat depresses me, just how quickly I tracked down the cause...

    http://klozoff.ms11.net/testing/saodwici.html

    You Sir, has far too much time on your hands! :-))))

    Yazeran

    Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

  • Carsten (unregistered)

    Wow, flashback! I've seen the Subway one before. Back in the day when dot matrix printers were all you could realistically afford, my father's did the same thing.

    Some times bit 0 would get stuck, sometimes it was okay. The solution was obviously just to solder the wire back on to the centronics plug.

    I wonder why bit 0 is the one that goes?

  • Lister (unregistered) in reply to Robajob

    There are two pronunciations for 'invalid'. Each one has a separate meaning. One is not-valid, as in 'This is not a valid entry'. The other is unable, as in 'This person is unable to get out of bed'.

  • (cs) in reply to Iain
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    Wouldn't one need to go through about 182 leap years to gain an extra half-year in age? That's almost 3/4ths of a millennium.

  • Ancient_Hacker (unregistered) in reply to Carsten

    It could be a unreliable bit, or maybe a bad cable. There are a lot of printer cables out there that don't meet the newer 1284 specs. The new specs include a lot more shielding and twisted pairs of signal and ground wires, all to improve the fidelity of the data.

  • (cs) in reply to lessalesa
    lessalesa:
    John Galt - the problem with your theory is, it says "age next birthday." She won't be 28.5 on her next birthday, she'll be exactly 29...or 29. Which is it?
    Yeah, but it doesn't say "age IN YEARS" now, does it. Who knows what unit of measurement they're using. That's what John Galt was talking about with his "360-day years" example.
  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that the article's title is wrong. It should be Wosld's Besu Saodwici.

    I like Subway's, I even ate a BMT for lunch today, but I don't think they can claim they are the worl'd best. Grammar-wise, at least.

  • Todo: register username (unregistered)

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  • (cs) in reply to Robajob
    Robajob:
    Synchronos:
    The bus sign is not a WTF.

    I'd suggest that calling disabled people invalids is a WTF.

    You might. And in five years' time you'll be saying "Disabled is such an insult! Some people merely suffer motile disconfiguration." And in ten years' time it'll be "non-primitive"; followed by "assitively receptive"; followed by "uniquely mobile"; then quite possibly back around to "cripple"; and so on.

    FYI: There's a running joke where people reply with "insensitive clod". Just like you, only funny.

  • Pet (unregistered)

    In regards to the age - how about people born on 29th February? They'd be grayhaired and retired by the time of their 18th birthday..

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    lessalesa:
    John Galt - the problem with your theory is, it says "age next birthday." She won't be 28.5 on her next birthday, she'll be exactly 29...or 29. Which is it?
    Yeah, but it doesn't say "age IN YEARS" now, does it. Who knows what unit of measurement they're using. That's what John Galt was talking about with his "360-day years" example.
    Or she's been on a rocket with a high rate of speed.
  • Mr Logic (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    lessalesa:
    John Galt - the problem with your theory is, it says "age next birthday." She won't be 28.5 on her next birthday, she'll be exactly 29...or 29. Which is it?
    Yeah, but it doesn't say "age IN YEARS" now, does it. Who knows what unit of measurement they're using. That's what John Galt was talking about with his "360-day years" example.
    The real WTF here is that none of you have noticed it doesn't say whose next birthday.

    Why are you assuming that's her age at her next birthday and not, say, the age at the next birthday of one of the insured.

  • (cs) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    kastein:
    Brian R.:
    I love debugging 1-stuck-bit problems!
    Yeah, that looks a *lot* like someone's receipt printer is expecting 9600 8n1 and is getting 9600 7n2 instead or something... meu's ieas iu gos suuck cius! It also explains the lack of proper formatting, because 0xA (carriage return) will end up as 0xB, vertical tab.
    Of course it might be the problem, but 0x0D is <cr>, while 0x0A is <lf>. You should really get your ASCII chart better memorized. Yes, it is probably a one bit problem, but the difference between 8n1 and 7n2 is that the high order bit is always on. Now days nobody uses 2 stop bits, as all the 110bps teletypes are in a junk heap somewhere (or used by "antiquers" like the one I have buried). In that case, one used 8n2.
    Oops... I'm way too used to 0xA just being "the terminator" and forgot whether it was actually linefeed or carriage return, my bad. To my credit, I did realize my mistake about MSB vs LSB vs stop bits shortly after posting, and seemingly corrected it sometime shortly after you started writing your response.

    Also, Oliver Klozoff's detective work impresses me greatly. If you aren't using that knowledge at your current job, you should find one where you can, because you can make some pretty good money as a hardware design/debug engineer. I think you might be wrong about the 16550A (most receipt printers are parallel based right? anyone know?) since most parallel ports are open-collector TTL compatible with pullup resistors and/or diode overvoltage protection networks, this would be easily caused by the pulldown transistor being a bit on the sickly side.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    I'm going to suspect the cable on the sandwiches--it's not completely bad, just very iffy.

    As for the ad about going to unknown--you think that's bad:

    Part of an e-mail showing a schedule change (dates omitted on purpose, no point in announcing when I'm away from home):

    Flight Number: 0857 Operated By: UNITED Departing From: San Francisco California At: 1:18 p.m. Arriving In: At: 5:25 p.m.

    Flight Number: 0858 Operated By: UNITED Departing From: At: 12:25 p.m. Arriving In: San Francisco California At: 8:14 a.m.

  • Whiner (unregistered) in reply to rfsmit
    rfsmit:
    You might. And in five years' time you'll be saying "Disabled is such an insult! Some people merely suffer motile disconfiguration." And in ten years' time it'll be "non-primitive"; followed by "assitively receptive"; followed by "uniquely mobile"; then quite possibly back around to "cripple"; and so on.

    FYI: There's a running joke where people reply with "insensitive clod". Just like you, only funny.

    Personally I am very offended when people describe me as "balding". I prefer to be thought of as simply too tall for my hair.

  • Naranek (unregistered)

    It's just that you really shouldn't enter the bus through the emergency exit (window).

  • RBoy (unregistered) in reply to WuphonsReach
    WuphonsReach:
    For the Subway Receipt, it looks like the least significant bit got corrupted.

    If that's what happens when the least significant bit gets corrupted, I'd hate to see what happens when the most significant bit goes to hell.

  • (cs)

    Yes, I felt the irresistable need to nitpick.

    In actuality a person only has one 'birth day' and then they celebrate the anniversary of the event of their birth annually.

    That being said, unless the insurance statement is saying that on X date you will be XX.X years old then it's a complete duh moment.

  • (cs)

    !ReeeeMeeCasi wheeeeeeeeeeee!

    Thaok!you!

    Sames!

  • (cs) in reply to RBoy
    RBoy:
    WuphonsReach:
    For the Subway Receipt, it looks like the least significant bit got corrupted.

    If that's what happens when the least significant bit gets corrupted, I'd hate to see what happens when the most significant bit goes to hell.

    it's actually pretty cool... you get the upper half of the extended ASCII codeset instead of the lower half! what particular assortment of neat little symbols you get depends on the country that the line printer was manufactured in, what codepage/locale you have your OS set to, and the phase of the moon.

  • Glow-in-the-dark (unregistered) in reply to Synchronos
    Synchronos:
    The bus sign is not a WTF. The sign tells that even the people with disabilities can enter the bus. An other name for that is low-entry bus. Don't know where you need an electronic sign for that, though.

    And BTW, it's "Wosld's Besu Saodwici". I would hate to have wosls in my saodwici (a wosl'd saodwici).

    Damn, there I was thinking the bus was rear-ended.

    [cough]

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to RBoy
    RBoy:
    WuphonsReach:
    For the Subway Receipt, it looks like the least significant bit got corrupted.
    If that's what happens when the least significant bit gets corrupted, I'd hate to see what happens when the most significant bit goes to hell.
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  • (cs)

    I only hope Greg took the receipt at its word, and insisted on paying $1/39! for the cookies...

  • fubar (unregistered) in reply to Oliver Klozoff
    Oliver Klozoff:
    These!is!a!loose!wise!os someuhiog!causiog!eycess!caqaciuaoce!oo the!D0 lioe/ Eiuhes thau, os these's!a!damagee pumldowo ciscuiu. The!resumt is; Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC seu, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC seu. Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC cmeas, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC *uociaogee*.

    This!acuuamly!makes!iu possicle!to!pastiamly!rewesse!the!egfecu (ig ouupuu cias has!LSC cmeas, you!koow!the!ciasacues begose!iu hae the!LSC cmeas)/

    (Original text:) There is a loose wire or something causing excess capacitance on the D0 line. Either that, or there's a damaged pulldown circuit. The result is: If character N has its LSB set, then character N+1 will have its LSB set. If character N has its LSB clear, then character N+1 will have its LSB unchanged.

    This actually makes it possible to partially reverse the effect (if output char has LSB clear, you know the character before it had the LSB clear).

    It somewhat depresses me, just how quickly I tracked down the cause...

    http://klozoff.ms11.net/testing/saodwici.html

    proper!

  • Sakusaea!Juo (unregistered)

    But isn't it obvious, desu~! That must be a certain Maiden working on cash register, desu~! She's bad at typing tho, desu~.

    As for the bus - I don't think the sign is wrong, desu~. Entering through the window surely can be thought of as "invalid entry", desu~.

    Desu.

  • Wingnut (unregistered)

    How about bribing those corrupt bits?

  • (cs) in reply to Carsten
    Carsten:
    Wow, flashback! I've seen the Subway one before. Back in the day when dot matrix printers were all you could realistically afford, my father's did the same thing.

    Some times bit 0 would get stuck, sometimes it was okay. The solution was obviously just to solder the wire back on to the centronics plug.

    I wonder why bit 0 is the one that goes?

    It isn't necessarily that bit 0 is the one that goes. It's maybe just that when bit 7 goes, what you get doesn't look so amusingly close-but-not-quite to English that people submit it to TDWTF.
  • (cs) in reply to rfsmit
    rfsmit:
    Robajob:
    Synchronos:
    The bus sign is not a WTF.

    I'd suggest that calling disabled people invalids is a WTF.

    You might. And in five years' time you'll be saying "Disabled is such an insult! Some people merely suffer motile disconfiguration." And in ten years' time it'll be "non-primitive"; followed by "assitively receptive"; followed by "uniquely mobile"; then quite possibly back around to "cripple"; and so on.

    FYI: There's a running joke where people reply with "insensitive clod". Just like you, only funny.

    That's not funny, my brother died that way.
  • (cs) in reply to Glow-in-the-dark
    Glow-in-the-dark:
    Synchronos:
    The bus sign is not a WTF. The sign tells that even the people with disabilities can enter the bus. An other name for that is low-entry bus. Don't know where you need an electronic sign for that, though.

    And BTW, it's "Wosld's Besu Saodwici". I would hate to have wosls in my saodwici (a wosl'd saodwici).

    Damn, there I was thinking the bus was rear-ended.

    [cough]

    Presumably the bus got rear-ended in the subway? They should install some better lighting in there.
  • Casey (unregistered) in reply to Beavis
    Beavis:
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    You know, I'm no math wiz, but that doesn't make sense. Birthdays should be whole numbers regardless of birthdays.

    No math wizzes work at the mortgage companies. Hence the problems.

  • Nulix Zealot (unregistered) in reply to Lister
    Lister:
    There are two pronunciations for 'invalid'. Each one has a separate meaning. One is not-valid, as in 'This is not a valid entry'. The other is unable, as in 'This person is unable to get out of bed'.

    The first meaning is clearly the correct one here: the bus window is not a valid entry, you have to use a door. So no WTF here.

  • Teli (unregistered)

    Blame it on the carebears.

  • (cs)

    At least the SUCWAY receipt got the amount correct!

  • BESU (unregistered)
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  • Suckway (unregistered)

    It's certainly a steal at USE 6.77... oh... well... what was the exchange rate for U.S. Euros again?

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  • THE DEST (unregistered) in reply to THE DEST
    THE DEST:
    BESU:
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  • Cow orker (unregistered) in reply to ckoppelman
    ckoppelman:
    "Invalid Entry" must simply be a handicap-accessible bus.
    Exactly. Them fuckers better squeeze them wheelin' chairs thru the slot too.
  • Jeff (unregistered)

    The receipt! is!so exciting! You! must! see! it!

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